This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book outlines what theory for a global age might look like, positing an agenda for consideration, contestation and discussion, and a framework for the research-led volumes that follow in the series. Gurminder K. Bhambra takes up the classical concerns of sociology and social theory and shows how they can be rethought through an engagement with postcolonial studies and decoloniality, two of the most distinctive critical approaches of the past decades.Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.Introduction: Connected SociologiesSociological Theory and Historical Sociology1. Modernisation Theory, Underdevelopment, and Multiple Modernities 2. From Modernisation Theory to World HistorySocial Sciences and Questions of Epistemology3. Opening the Social Sciences to Cosmopolitanism? 4. Global Sociology: Indigenous, Subversive, Autonomous? 5. Global Sociology: Multiple, Southern, Provincial?Connected Sociologies6. Postcolonial and Decolonial Reconstructions 7. Sociology for an 'Always-Already' Global AgeGurminder K. Bhambrais Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. She is Series Editor of theTheory for a Global Ageseries.